Illinois · Private foundation
Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $768k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $17,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $114,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 26 | $705k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $557k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $460k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $398k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $293k | 27% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $277k | 11% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $265k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $143k | 60% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Heterodox Academy | $295,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc | $210,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Gorton Community Center | $209,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Ragdale Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Savannah Music Festivalinc | $190,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Millennial Action Project Dba Future Caucus | $180,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Garden Club of America | $102,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Council of Independent Colleges | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Millennium Park Foundation | $90,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Allies for Community Business Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 33 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($999k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation
- How much does Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation give?
- Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $767,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Public Benefit (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Heterodox Academy ($295k), Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Inc ($210k), Gorton Community Center ($209k).
- Does Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Chicago Community Trust, John and Kathleen Schreiber Foundation D/B/A Schreiber Philanthropy, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation based?
- Robin and Sandy Stuart Foundation is based in IL.
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